Andrew Green: Staffing the NHS properly requires more training – not endless immigration

We already have one of the highest proportions of foreign-trained doctors in Europe – 29 per cent compared to less than 10 per cent for France and Germany.

Nicholas Daniels: Investment should play a much greater role in British overseas aid strategy

Supporting businesses and innovators can generate scalable, sustainable returns whilst bypassing corrupt middle-men and avoiding white elephant projects.

In Twitter politics, truth is simultaneously the highest prize and the first casualty

Remarkably, sometimes these inconsistent trends both exist within the same tweet – as with a recent viral clip accusing a peer of telling lies when he was in fact correct.

Alex Morton: It’s time to turn the Department for International Development into a Department for Humanitarian Relief

At a time when austerity continues, we need to be explain that we are not wasting taxpayers’ money on a grand delusion that we can create prosperity.

Britishness is a political, not a racial, characteristic

Afua Hirsch recounts her inability, as a person of mixed race, to feel she truly belongs in either Britain or Ghana.

Nicholas Daniels: I’ve seen African dictators wreck their countries. Corbyn must be stopped from doing the same to Britain.

I was drawn to work here by the values which I believe can help a struggling economy become more productive: autonomy, hard work, and enterprise.

Stephen Hammond: How to solve the Brexit access-versus-control dilemma

They propose a bespoke agreement that would permit mutual market access, with a Solvency II equivalence outcome built into it.

Mugabe did no good that better men could not have done by better means

The end of Rhodesia did not need to herald mass murder, economic collapse, and a nosedive in life expectancy.

Let that lion roar: Johnson’s speech in full

“A society that does not judge you for where you come from or your background or how you live your life provided you do no harm to others that is the syncretic genius of our country.”

Daniel Hannan: Uganda shows the power of the free market in action

A comparison with its neighbour, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is stark.

Leo Docherty: Western policy in Libya has been a disaster – we need a new one

The UK should urgently engage with the Libyan National Army, and support its efforts to defeat the Islamist militias in the West of the country.

May warns Davos of globalisation’s downside – and “the cult of individualism”. Her speech: full text

“We need to recognise the way in which a more global and individualistic world can sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together.”

Alex Morton: Patel’s best possible aid policy – access to universal contraception

Aid reform based on ‘efficiency’ is a smokescreen. So a different narrative and approach is needed.

Andrew Mitchell: Nigeria offers huge opportunities to post-Brexit Britain

We have deep historic ties to a future continental leader and one of the fastest-emerging global economies.

Philippe Herlin: The Brexit negotiations. And how the Commission has a vested interest in high tariffs while member states lose out.

It’s critical that the UK makes common-cause with national EU member governments – who stand to lose out.